Relatives, Marion community mourn crash victims

9:00 PM,
Mar. 6, 2013

Barbara Gollnow

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Pat Pelkey still is trying to come to grips with the enormity of the crash that abruptly ended the lives of her sister, Barbara Gollnow, and five members of her family.

"We're mourning, but at this point we don't know, we're all in such shock; it's unreal," Pelkey told Gannett Wisconsin Media on Tuesday morning as she checked for mail at her sister's now-quiet home in Pella, a town of 865 people in Shawano County. "I'm feeling just so jumbled."

Barbara Gollnow, 62, died Saturday in a Kentucky crash with her husband, James Gollnow, 62, and their family friend Marion Chapnoise, 92, adopted daughter ...